The Zweiflers

Post-screening discussion with series creator David Hadda and actors Aaron Altaras, Saffron Coomber, Mark Ivanir, Eleanor Reissa, and Deleila Piasko

Screening in two parts with a 45-minute intermission in between. One ticket will admit you to both screenings. 

• 12:15pm: Episodes 1-3 (154m)
• 3:30pm: Episodes 4-6 (157m)

Created by: David Hadda, Sarah Hadda, Juri Sternburg

Presented in six episodes, this altogether compelling series is a comic-dramatic, multigenerational saga following the travails of an extended Jewish family sorting out the future of its vast delicatessen empire in contemporary Germany. Symcha (Mike Burstyn), the patriarch of the Zweifler clan and a Holocaust survivor, is looking to sell off his deli business. Yet potentially damaging secrets from the past throw his future—and that of his children and grandchildren—into question and the Zweiflers’s present into disarray. The novelistic, expansive narrative of The Zweiflers, set in Frankfurt and Berlin, encompasses themes of tradition, succession, the multiculturalism of the Jewish diaspora, estrangement, prejudice, and familial trauma all while maintaining a vivid, humorous tone over its multiple, gripping hours. This multilayered and often hilarious examination of modern Jewish identity was the winner of the Best Series award at the Cannes International Series Festival.